Messengers

It was a beautiful day the sun was shining with not a cloud in sight. I was getting ready to go away on a mini adventure.

We arrived at our destination the scenery was breathtakingly beautiful. The ocean looked liked a shimmering silver blanket, the waves gently lapping to the shore.

The birds sqwarking as they flew past, the sun embraced me like a tender warm hug. I was delighted. Then in front of me I could see the outline of something so intriguing one eye peering out of the water staring straight at me, it was then I was encupulated by this creature, time stood still it was like no one else was around we had made a profound connection in that moment.

Little did I know it at the time this was to be my first spirit animal connection it was a dolphin, joyful, inquisitive, loyal, intelligent, friendly and intuitive. When I think back to this time all the things I listed about this animal was all the things that I was starting to experience at that stage in my life.

Moving forward a decade on I was walking into my mothers yard when out of the the corner off my eye I spotted this bird it wasn’t the nicest feeling that I got when I looked at it. Then my husband turned to me and said something I would never forget he said “that’s the bad news bird” I was mad at him for saying that at the time because my mum was sick with cancer. This bird was just the messenger as it turned out, my mum did pass away not so long after. I’ll never forget this bird!.

We had moved away from home about 1400 kilometres up north. We had a young family in that time and we were taking our little family back home for a holiday. On the drive down this bird from out of no where smashed into the passenger side windscreen where I was sitting. I was uneasy when this happened, as I was thinking what does this mean...

I now was awakened and knew that this was a message. I embraced myself when this bird hit the windscreen and that was to be the message also to embrace myself as something was going to go down. I had a huge family argument on this trip at the time and it wasn’t pretty.

Still living the life up north earning the big bucks enjoying life, we decided to build our dream home back down south closer to our families. It was when our house was in the final stages of building we went and stayed in the house with just mattresses on the floor.

I was to be awoken by a noise on my window that morning as I glanced out I saw two swallows sitting on the fly wire, so I stood there watching these joyful creatures as they were flying back and forth. I noticed 3 more swallows sitting on the home theatre roof of the house and this is where my 3 children were sleeping. This was a message the thought of moving back home was so strong. This was a family of 5 swallows just like us. Was this a sign that it was time to move back and this was our green light. Of course this intrigued my interest and I googled the meaning of swallows and what I found was sailors that went out to sea for long periods of time would often get tattoos of swallows as a symbol as the meaning was to return home. So guessed what we did we also returned home.

My kids are almost grown and we are almost empty nesters. I’ve been on a spiritual journey throughout my life and was awakened to the connection of animals and birds as messangers quite young, some people don’t get this at all and some take a lifetime to realise.

So when the barn owl started appearing I knew this was connected to me enertering the wise stage of my life. The owl also represents my spiritual growth and my intuition. Everything I have learnt I am meant to help guide and teach other's. This is the message I get from the barn owl.